Last night, Team Titanic lost on a embarrassingly botched inbounds play. Jalen Rose looked to call a timeout he didn’t have and then got slapped with a five-second violation with 2.2 seconds left as the Knicks fell to the Clippers, 85-82, for their sixth straight loss and 12th in 13 games.

The Knicks (14-33) were down one point, 83-82, but were out of timeouts. All options appeared covered, including Channing Frye, trying to come off a baseline pick. But instead of throwing it up, Rose turned to the referee, looking to signal for time. Instead, the ref mercifully signaled a violation.

“I heard him say one, ‘one-thousand,’ but I think he forgot the other four,” Rose said.

Rose, who finished with a game-high 23 points, took no blame. In his two games as a Knick, he’s been fine for the first 47 minutes and 53 seconds. In his debut Sunday, his ill-advised 3-pointer was blocked with 6.9 seconds left.

“Give their defense credit,” said Rose. “They did a good job denying guys. [The timeout] wasn’t a factor. Bottom line, they did a good job denying our play. I didn’t just want to throw the ball away.”

Cassell, who hit back-to-back 3-pointers in the two minutes that keyed the win, guarded the inbounds. Frye was unable to shake free of Elton Brand, who seemed to be holding Frye. Jamal Crawford had set the pick.

“No comment,” Frye said of Brand’s grabbing.

“Veteran guys did a little holding and grabbing,” said Rose, who finished with 23 points. “They understand officials probably not to call a foul at that point of the game.”

Said Crawford, “We didn’t give him any options. Nobody got open.”

Brown said he shouldn’t have put Frye and Crawford in that pick situation. Brown said Crawford also blew it by not coming to the ball as he was instructed.

“It was a bad play on my part,” Brown said. “I had two wrong guys in the screening situation. Jamal couldn’t get out. Channing couldn’t get out.”

Said Frye, “Coach put me in there. He has trust in me. I’d do it again. It’s not his fault. It’s mine. I need to do a better job of getting open. But it was one play. It shouldn’t have come down to it.”

The Knicks blew a seven-point fourth-quarter lead with 8:03 left. Cassell bagged a trey to give the Clippers the lead for good at 80-78 with 1:49 left.

Even though Malik Rose bricked one from the right baseline on the next possession, the Knicks were still in business because they actually played some defense last night.

But they didn’t get a big rebound with one minute left. After Brand missed, Curry had the ball slapped away by Chris Kaman, who had a big game, with 22 points and 11 boards.

Cassell picked it up and drilled a second straight 3-pointer from the left baseline to make it 83-78. But the Knicks clawed back with Rose scoring on a drive and making two free throws.

With 28 seconds left and down one, the Knicks elected not to call time out. The Clippers ran the shotclock down to the final ticks when Brand lofted a foul-line jumper that hit the backiron and the Knicks had the ball.

The Knicks shot 2 of 17 from 3-point range and 35 percent for the game.